Adaptive Throttling of Indexing for Improved Query Responsiveness

Background Search systems generally make use of a datastore for storing information. This datastore is responsible for providing searching capabilities and persisting all updates. At Myntra, we use a Lucene backed inverted index to provide search capability. Solr and Redis clusters are the data stores which power Myntra’s search and product…

My Experience using Fresco

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Blueprint: Qualitative and Quantitative Clickstream Event Analysis

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Notifications without the network!

Most of you who have had to deal with Push Notifications (GCM, etc.) would have come across how reliable they are. I stress on them not being reliable, primarily because of the…

Six months at Myntra

It was after an exhausting wait through September, and halfway into October last year, that I finally got the email I was in anxious anticipation of. I had made my way through the majority of the placement season (seventh semester of college) and was yet to find the opportunity I…

Building Myntra Zero — A High Performance Progressive Web App

Also, with the exception of large (Tier I) cities, most users use a low…

Demystifying UPI — All you need to know

Dinner where Everyone owes 28 bucks What if I…

Myntra Hackday 2016 is coming soon!

Last year, we did our first open Hackday, and we called it Hackerramp! Hackerramp, Myntra’s first open hackathon happened on the weekend of April 25–26 2015. Thanks to all the…

My Myntra Internship

Realtime Big Data Ingestion with Meterial

Background I got an opportunity to work extensively with big data and analytics in Myntra. Data Driven Intelligence being one of the core values at Myntra so crunching and processing data and reporting meaningful insights for the company is of utmost importance. Everyday millions of users visit Myntra on App or…

Data Products — Self Service Query Platform (DDP)

First goal…

Supercharging the Android WebView

Background Hybrid Android applications are mainstream these days. But Android WebViews have a limited access to any of the native resources. I would like to share some techniques which we implemented that improved the load time of our WebViews. Performance of WebViews is very critical, especially when they are a part…

Myntra storefront over the years

Over the last decade, Myntra has witnessed several avatars. We went back and chronicled this unbelievable transformation of our storefront using a combination of archival screenshots from our inboxes, google image searches and advanced hard disk recovery from old servers. In this post, we will attempt to chart this journey…

The simplest way to create a Data Grid in React

React is one of the coolest technologies to use in Web Development. It has gained tremendous popularity over the last couple of years. I started learning react when I joined Myntra last year and I loved it. The power of creating reusable components is something that really interests me. For…

How to build a technology platform

Let’s try to build a logistics technology platform for the world! What platform? SaaS platform for…

Decoding user search queries

Query processing pipeline follows a modular and layered design where input…

RedEye

I got an opportunity to work extensively with redshift as part of the BI team in Myntra. Redshift powered the core data warehousing logic and enabled business users to query on the data through applications built on top of it. While there were…

Universal Dashboarding Platform (UDP) — Data Visualisation Platform at Myntra

Data visualisation is…

Semantic Search — Innovation at scale!

Vulcan: Inventory Redistribution at Myntra

Redistribution Model: 1. Problem Statement At Myntra a section of our supply…

Real-time contextual type-ahead suggestions

Chapter I: The Motivation TL;DR We want to provide smart type-ahead suggestions, based on short-term user activity context. We aim to reduce the friction of finding the right product for a shopper at Myntra. Our Contextual Type-Ahead in Progress. Elucidation: Here we glance over regular suggestions, set Cushion Covers as the context and then…

Building Scalable Web Services in Golang

For the past few months, I have been neck-deep in writing and rewriting services in Golang. Be it migrating a service from NodeJs, or merely restructuring a hastily put together Go package, it’s been a lot of fun learning and developing a modus operandi that makes the dev…

Mastering layouts with UICollectionView

Introduced in iOS 6, UICollectionView is a more powerful extension of UITableView. While a table view only allows you to layout rows vertically — the number of different interactions that can be implemented…

Myntra Scheduler Service

Myntra has an in house service named Yantra. It is actually event processing engine that manages a state machine and triggers actions based on events and changes state. Yantra handles multiple event based state machine workflows like sending notifications, generating feeds and sending mailers on events, such as user have…

Building a Google Assistant App using Dialogflow